[
US
/ˈɡɫum/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈuːm/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈuːm/ ]
NOUN
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an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
gloom pervaded the office -
a state of partial or total darkness
he struck a match to dispel the gloom - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
How To Use gloom In A Sentence
- It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
- After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
- His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
- Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
- Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
- So why all the doom and gloom? The Sun
- Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much. Times, Sunday Times
- I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
- She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal. Times, Sunday Times